Murray caused some amusement when he threw his sweatband into the crowd, where it hit the head of All England Club chairman Phillip Brook — who then handed it as a gift to Prince Charles’ wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, who was sitting next to him.

“Normally you see who catches it. Then the Duchess opened up her bag and my wristband was in there, so he obviously had given it to her,” said Murray.

Women’s defending champion Petra Kvitova reached the third round with a 6-2, 6-0 win over Japan’s Kurumi Nara, at 1.55-metre (five feet, one inch) tall, the smallest player in the world top 100.

The Czech fired 10 aces and 23 winners and has lost just three games in two matches. Second seed Kvitova next faces Serbian 26th seed Jelena Jankovic.

Fifth seed Caroline Wozniacki made the third round with a 6-1, 7-6 (8/6) win over Denisa Allertova, the world number 83 from the Czech Republic.

The women’s draw opened up even further when Russian eighth seed Ekaterina Makarova, a quarter-finalist in 2014, went down 6-2, 7-5 to unseeded Magdalena Rybarikova of Slovakia.

Before this tournament, world number 65 Rybarikova had never won a match at Wimbledon in seven years. Makarova joined third seed Simona Halep, seventh seed Ana Ivanovic and Carla Suarez Navarro, seeded nine, in failing to get beyond the second round.